All the firewalls are the same and there's no difference. We might as well be using an open-source firewall. We block and allow, then connect your threat, sources, and intelligence. And that's it. You keep it updated, and that's all that is required. It works fine, It's Cisco, we have support, and it works.

We evaluated Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto before choosing this solution.

We did evaluate other solutions before choosing Cisco Sourcefire SNORT.

There were a couple of other products that we considered at the time. None of them made it very far in the process because they just didn't have a lot of the capabilities that we were looking for. Cisco came out on top.